The measurement problem of getting older.

I feel myself getting older. It is inevitable, really. It happens to all of us at some point along the way, so why am I struggling with the fact that I am struggling with it now? I get the process. We get older, we change, things change, and the world changes around us. As I […]

Deutsches Transport

In the continuing saga of catching up on our European road trip, I have to include our visit to the Deutsches Transportation Museum. I had visited the Deutsches Museum twenty-eight years ago, and I was blown away by the amount of exhibits they had on display of bikes, motorbikes, cars, and public transport vehicles. We […]

Koh Phayam… And the ol’ visa shuffle

We made it to Koh Phayam. And I found a great place to sit and write a blog post. It was a spot that we had chosen as a maybe-place to stay for a couple of months, so we came down to check it out. The island sits in the Andaman Sea, just below the […]

Eating Curry In Bed In Bangkok…

I am sitting in a hotel bed in Bangkok, eating my leftover green curry with chicken (yep. In bed), and it got me to thinking about things. Like, how I always feel so comfortable in Thailand… even for a few days in Bangkok before the noise and chaos chases me out. Perhaps there is something […]

A Bridge, Two Giants, And a Big Baby.

Okay, we are in France, but I am going back to Ireland again here for a minute. Several of the things I really loved about Ireland was the self-deprecating Irish sense of humor, their never-ending gift of blarney, and the folklore and mythology that run through everything they do (and have done). It is a […]

Irish Highways and Byways.

Well, yes, it’s true we have been in Germany, Portugal and France for the last month and a half, but we have been busy with friends visiting, so I haven’t actually finished posting a few things about Ireland (or Germany, Portugal, or France for that matter). This is one I wanted to do for a […]

Two very Irish Cities… Dublin and Belfast

We spent two and a half weeks in Dublin, and we liked it. But… Dublin seems like a big city that was designed by someone without a ton of creativity. There are some beautiful spots there, really nice architecture and engineering, but it seems like they just gave up designing and started repeating the best […]

A Rant About Ayampe

We left Ayampe after two and a half months. I can’t really say that it was terrible, and I can’t really say it was great. It was a strange place. Let me just start by saying that I loved the locals. Every morning I would take a stroll down to the beach to check the […]

See ya Kwajalein… It’s been interesting.

We have been here a year now. It has been a year of mixed emotions. I know I have not posted much in here about the island, but the times I have posted have been about how much fun we have been having. But, like everything else in life, it hasn’t always been tropical beaches, […]

Psst… Hey buddy. Need a used car?

Part four (or is it part five? I can’t remember any longer) of our trip to Pohnpei last July (yep. Still haven’t gotten to the surf trip in October) finds us driving around the island in our rental car. Strangely, all the cars here are from Asian countries so they are right-hand drive cars, but […]